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Their strong start, which featured an NHL-record 11-game road winning streak from the beginning of the season, fizzled into a parade of close losses, defensive blunders, missed scoring chances, and badly timed penalties.

After the defeat by Afghanistan in Delhi, with Stokes now available after his badly timed hip injury, that plan was jettisoned as six specialist batters and five specialist bowlers were selected to play South Africa.

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Guardiola's public admonishment of his striker at half-time was not just badly timed and unnecessary but an appalling display of arrogance.

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After laughing the first incident off as a "badly timed drunken joke", the second time, Mr Cook reacted angrily and threw him out of his home and did not take any further action.

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Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Ali Sabry has said that badly timed tax cuts led to a reduction in government revenue, reducing the country’s ability to borrow and releasing existing reserves to maintain the US dollar at a fixed rate against the local currency — and that those factors triggered the foreign currency crisis.

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